Dr. Snorri Bjorn Rafnsson is an epidemiologist and currently is Research Associate in Ageing and Welfare, Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK; Honorary Fellow in Epidemiology, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, UK; and Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Akureyri, Iceland. […]
Dr. Maurizio Pompili is currently Professor of Suicidology and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the II Medical School of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he received his M.D. degree, where he was trained in Psychiatry (both summa cum laude) and where he received his doctoral degree in Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences. He is the […]
Leo Sher, M.D. INVITED LECTURES AND GRAND ROUNDS Grand Rounds Presentation, “Preventing Suicide,” Bronx Psychiatric Center, Bronx, New York, June 13, 2005 Grand Rounds Presentation, “Alcohol and Suicide,” Cornell-Westchester Hospital, an affiliate of Weill Cornell Medical College, White Plains, New York, November 15, 2005 Grand Rounds Presentation, “CSF HVA studies in depression, alcoholism, and […]
Leo Sher, M.D. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1. Sher L.A. Thermodynamic studies of the hormonal influences on myocardial metabolism. In: Contemporary Problems of Modern Endocrinology and Chemistry of Hormones. XIY Scientific Conference of Young Scientists and Specialists of the Kharkov Research Institute of Endocrinology and Chemistry of Hormones (Kharkov, Ukraine, May 11-12, 1987). Book of Abstracts. Kharkov, […]
Leo Sher, M.D. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR AND BRIEF COMMENTARIES 1. Sher L. White-blood-cell monitoring and clozapine. The Lancet, 1995, Vol. 346, No. 8978, p. 849. 2. Sher L. False-memory syndrome. The Lancet, 1995, Vol. 346, No. 8991/8992, pp. 1704-1705. 3. Sher L. The uncertain boundaries between neurology and psychiatry. The Italian Journal of Neurological […]
Leo Sher, M.D. BOOK REVIEWS 1. Sher L. Seasons and the brain. Review of the book: Seasonal Affective Disorder: Practice and Research. Timo Partonen, Andres Magnusson, editors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 324 pp. ISBN 0192632256. The Lancet, 2001, Vol. 358, No. 9298, p. 2092. 2. Sher L. Review of the book: Bioterrorism: psychological and […]
Leo Sher, M.D. PATENTS 1. Sher A.V., Sher L.A. Device for electropuncture. USSR Inventor’s Certificate No. 1219086. Priority date: Oct. 30, 1984. Published: March 23, 1986. Official Bulletin of the State Committee of the USSR on Inventions and Discoveries, No. 11, 1986 (in Russian). 2. Chinchevoy M.M., Sher L.A. Device for electropuncture. USSR Inventor’s Certificate […]
Leo Sher, M.D. BOOK CHAPTERS 1. Sher L., Mann J.J. Neurobiology of suicide. In: Soares J.C., Gershon S. (editors). Textbook of Medical Psychiatry. New York: Marcel Dekker, 2003, pp. 701-711. 2. Sher L., Mann J.J. Psychiatric pathophysiology: mood disorders. In: Tasman A., Kay J., Lieberman J.A. (editors). Psychiatry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, […]
Leo Sher, M.D.BOOKS 1. Kandel I., Merrick J., Sher L. (editors). Adolescence and Alcohol: An International Perspective. London – Tel Aviv: Freund Publishing House, 2006. 326 pages. 2. Sher L., Kandel I., Merrick J. (editors). Alcohol and Suicide: Research and Clinical Perspectives. Victoria, BC, Canada: International Academic Press, 2007. Distributed by Trafford. 205 pages. 3. […]
Leo Sher, M.D. REVIEWS, THEORETICAL PAPER, AND EDITORIALS 1. Sher L. The effect of weather conditions on epileptic patients: A possible mechanism and its implications for acupuncture intervention. American Journal of Acupuncture, 1995, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 335-337. 2. Sher L. Effects of the weather conditions on mood and behaviour: The role of acupuncture […]
